(z66) divers things as one : nor a Conditional Grant as anAbfolute. 4, It is true that the Elea shall be as certainly Justified by the Conditional Grant; as if it had beenAbfolute : but this is fo far from making them all one,that it more Pets forth the Omnifcience and Wifdomof God, that can bring man tohis appointed ends, by means molt fit to his nature, and as infallibly attain his ends by. Contingent means, as by naturally necefrary. Neitheryet to Objea that it is not their OwnMerit, but of ano- ther Which refpeas them , that other being their Surety, doing that whereby he Meritedon their behalf : 2-ea in their_Pad, they dying with him : though the fame in them could not havebeen meritorious, they being at beg meermen, and at worg veryfinfal men. Reply. Here is the heart of the whole Controverfie,and ( ifI may have leave to fpeak as confidently as your felf,) the Root of many dangerous errors, I thinkvery plainly fubverting the Chri- ftian Religion. I confefs with comfort,that Chrift was our Surety, and merited on our behalf, and in our Read in fome fenfe, efpeci- ally that he fatisfied in our ftead : But that we dyed with himwhen he dyed, I deny : I fuppofe you would by this intimate that he did not only Merit inour ftead , but Reputatively fo inour per. fan, as that ipfofatio his Merit was theirs, for whofe fake it was performed and they reputed tohave merited in, by , and with him. This opinion deftroyeth the fubftance of all Religion, as I hope to manifeft upon fitter occasion. Though Chrift did Merit for us, and fuller in our ftead, yet it was not as our Delegate, nor did we do it in him in a Civil and Law fenfe,anymore truly then in a natural. Nor is the fanner reputed to have done all that his voluntary Sponfor doth for him, nor is the benefit of it ipfo faFlo his, but on what terms the Sponfor and the Creditor or Rector fluff pleafe to convey it. 5: ACompaq or Covenant being made of giving life and falva- tion upon the Condition of Obedience, to certain perrons, that Condi- dition being compleatlyfulfilled, as it was in the death ofChrift, being made of the Promife according to the tenor of the Compaa and the perfon, prefentedfor the enjoyment of it, Purely thofe perfons have an aRual Right unto it. Reply. If the Covenant had been made with us, and we had performed the Conditions, or another for us, ( fo be it the Pro- mifehad,been made to us, upon inch performanceof another ,) then
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